Nicholas Gonzales

Edgar Allan Poe
Academic Journals, Critical essay
Topic: To prove that Poe was a very masculine writer/ also not very ethical

1. In the poem the black cat critics are saying that he is not very ethical
2. now essays say that this is a fundamentally ethical poem
3. the essay says that Poe is not an ethical writer because in the poem the black cat it says its not etchical
4. the poem black cat is about crime and guilt
5. they say Poe has a lot of writings about guilt
6. his tale of horror is "a series of mere household events
7. in Poe's writing he talks as if he was a girl
8. The narrator's feminine traits, stemming from his childhood
9. are displayed in his "docility," "humanity," and "tenderness of heart
10. While the narrator's marriage conventionally establishes his masculinity
11. he fails to fully inhabit the role of husband
12. The story spans several years, but the couple has no children, nor does the narrator appear to be employed
13. In order to mask the feminine aspects of his identity and to counter his failed masculinity, Poe performs increasingly violent acts
14. In order to mask the feminine aspects of his identity and to counter his failed masculinity, the narrator performs increasingly violent acts
15. The narrator explains why he killed the cat: "because I knew it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offense.
16. he knew that in doing so he was committing a sin--a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it
17. Not long after killing the cat, Poe acquires another black cat that looks remarkably like the original except in one respect
18. This violence, initially directed toward the second cat, ends in the narrator's murder of his wife
19. the consequence is his most excessively masculine act: he murders his wife.
20. he also behaves appropriately masculinity when visited by the police. Poe's description of these behavior

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Critical Essay, Magazine

1. he importance of land and its effect on identity are clearly evident from the beginning of both texts.
2. had five hundred acres and no mortgage
3. The importance of land and its effect on identity are clearly evident from the beginning of both texts
4. hes materialistic attitudes are further reinforced through the lexical fields at the opening of both texts
5. The Ericsons had three 170 acres and a mortgage
6. in A Thousand Acres the land is also portrayed from the outset as a symbol of fertility
7. here are the source of each other and create each other
8. Lear curses his daughters with imagery from an equally polluted landscape of 'fen-sucked fogs' and 'infection
9. you can tell Poe covers up his non masculinity because he uses men in all of his writings and they all die, this makes him look all masculine
10. Poe uses of obedience to describe his attitude to his father
11. his father was embarrassed by his non masculinity
12. The moments of the text, scenes are dramatic and full of dread
13. his mother died when he was young so this makes him a very masculine writer now
14. This is represented of Lear's need to understand the nature of man
15. quote from Poe "I am alone felicitate/In your dear highness' love"
16. Poe was alone for a while which stared making him write about non ethical and trying to hide his lack of masculinity
17. The women have to tiptoe around in the play so the don't hear them
18. Poe lacked his father and son relationship
19. i believe this is a reason that Poe is not a very masculine writer
20. which ultimately affect our responses and sympathies both towards the characters and our interpretation of the works themselves

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Critical essay
Magezine
Topic: To pove Poe really did have a hard life

1. Edgar Allan Poe, a man whose feverish life--a chronicle of obsessions, depressions, hysterical gestures and determinedly self-destructive behavior
2. goes a fair way toward proving his point
3. Born to a family of actors, this made his life harder
4. Poe job as an author was jeopardized by his alchloic problems
5. His love life, too, tended toward the bizarre: After the death of his cousin Virginia, whom he had married when she was 13,
6. he courted women with a compulsive insistence that, these days
7. These episodes of eccentricity only deepen the mystery surrounding his 1849 death
8. which occurred shortly after he was found drunk in Baltimore following an unexplained disappearance
9. Famously credited as the inventor of the detective story
10. Poe seems himself to have been the proverbial riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
11. The Revealed One, which it took to Greece and the Ukraine in August
12. These projects follow such recent productions as Edgar Allan Poe, John Hardy's anti-naturalistic play about the writer's demons
13. he Final Descent of Edgar Allan Poe, which is set in a morgue. This year, the rock musician Lou Reed issued the album The Raven
14. That's not to say that Poe's biographical legacy has eclipsed his oeuvre on the nation's stages
15. That's not to say that Poe's biographical legacy has eclipsed his oeuvre on the nation's stages
16. For him, the theater is a place to question the existence of God
17. The Revealed One aims to depict a man
18. The challenge is to theatricalize the writings of someone who was obsessed with God and the spiritual side of our existence
19. In a poem in the Gothic story "Ligeia," Poe envisaged this kind of cyclic hope and disappointment--the experience of humanity in general--as "a play of hopes and fears from "the website"
20. It is tempting to think that this vision of life and mortality as theatre is the magnet that draws playwrights and performers to Edgar Allan Poe

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Academic journal
critical essay
Topic: prove Poe's ego is evil

1. Ego-Evil refers to behavior motivated by selfish calculation and greed
2. Ego-Evil is different from Superego-Evil in the sense that the former is about the elevation of self-love
3. The resulting lack of self-knowledge
4. makes Edgar Allan Poe's narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" judge the old man based on his own
5. This essay foregrounds this interplay between the ego and the eye
6. Poe's stories often manifest an intense interest in Ego-Evil and visual politics
7. many of Poe's stories illustrate the biblical truths that humans love to impose their views
8. Poe always sees to it that his heroes do not remain blind to the Truth for long
9. but the police's questioning eye agitates and excites the narrator
10. all of Poe's writings have a very bad crime happening
11. Ego-Evil stands out because his hero's frame of mind is utterly corrupt
12. The Tell-Tale Heart is already noted for highlighting the links between the eye
13. This episode foregrounds the way of the eye
14. which is always on the side of the Subject and its narcissistic fantasy.
15. the narrator feels that the police's gaze
16. We are in fact drawn to notice the mechanism of evil subjectivity
17. IN "The Tell-Tale Heart," Ego-Evil is the cause of murder and the reason for confessing the murder." website"
18. The Tell-Tale Heart offers no solution to terminate Ego-Evil
19. Poe characterizes his hero with a prominent split mindset
20. There for Poe is an evil writer

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